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Martin tied for first place at curling championship

Canada's Kevin Martin moved into a first place tie Sunday night at the
men's world curling championship with a 9-3 victory over Hugh Millikin
of Australia.

By Brian McAndrewStaff reporter

Sun., April 6, 2008

GRAND FORKS, N.D.–Canada's Kevin Martin moved into a first place tie Sunday night at the men's world curling championship with a 9-3 victory over Hugh Millikin of Australia.

Martin improved his record to 3-0 to tie Andy Kapp of Germany who was not scheduled to play in the night round of four games.

Twelve countries are playing an 11-game round robin tournament at the University of North Dakota's Ralph. The Canadian team with Martin, third John Morris, second Marc Kennedy and lead Ben Hebert ironed out any wrinkles they'd encountered in their first two games and put on a powerful performance before 2,265 spectators.

Millikin described them as the best Canadian team he's encountered in his eleven world competitions.

The bubble burst for the strong-starting Juri Snitil of Czech Republic who lost 8-4 to Thomas Ulsrud of Norway. It's the Czech's first appearance as a country at the worlds and their record dropped to 2-1.

The U.S. pulled off a stunning 7-6 upset of Scotland when Scottish skip David Murdoch, the 2006 world champion, came up light on his final rock that he needed to deliver to the four-foot ring. His stone came to a halt in the top 12-foot ring with American Craig Brown having two rocks scoring in the eight-foot.

The U.S., France and Czech Republic were tied at 2-1. Tied at 1-2 were Australia, Scotland, Sweden, China, Denmark and Norway. Switzerland remained winless after three games.

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